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No. 377,673. Patentedli'eb. 7, 1888.

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICEQ PHILIP FIEGE, OF LANESVILLE, VIRGINIA.

ROAD-CART.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,673, dated February 7, 1888.

Application filed August 12, 1887. Serial No. 246,800. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILIP FIEGE, of Lanesville, in the county of King William and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Two-Wheeled Vehicles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in .Which- The figure is a perspective view of one of my improved vehicles, the wheels and box or body being removed.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

1 represents the axle upon which rests the bolster 2, having transverse notches 3 in its upper surface near its opposite ends to receive the blocks 4,upon which rest the elliptic springs 5, clips 6 embracing the lower members of the springs and extending down at opposite sides of the bolster and axle, as shown, to firmly secure said parts together. I

7 represents the rectangular frame clipped at or near its opposite rear corners to the upper members of the springs 5.

' 9 is a cross-bar bent twice at its ends to rest on the side bars of the frame 7 and extend downward within said frame at or a little in rear of the center thereof.

10 are the thills made straight at their rear ends and extending under the frame 7, to the under sides of the side bars of which'in front of their centers said ends are connected by the upwardly-curved irons 11, hinged to the forked plates 12.

13 is the cross-bar connecting the thills 10 near their rear ends and directlyunder the front cross-bar of the frame 7.

14 are wear-plates on the upper surface of the cross-bar at its ends, and 15 are the guidepins projecting upward from said plates.

16 isa spring secured at its center to the under side of the front cross-bar of the frame 7 and curved or inclined downward and outward, its ends being slotted to receive the guide-pins and resting on the said wear-plates 14 his the singletree pivoted to the under side of the cross-bar 13 and connected centrally with the axle by the strap 17.

The body or box is supported by the rear cross-bar of the frame 7 and the central bar, 9.. If desired, the thills may be replaced by a pole.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the axle and springs, of the rectangular framesecured at or near its rear corners to the upper members of the springs, the thills extending rearward under the frame and hinged to the sidebars thereof between their ends, the cross-bar connecting the thills directly below the front cross-bar of said frame, and the curved spring secured to the under side of the said front bar and bearing at its ends on the upper surface of the said cross-bar, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the axle and the springs,of the rectangular frame 7, secured at or near its rear corners to the upper members of the springs, the thills projecting rearward under the side bars of the said frame and having the upward-curved irons hinged to the under sides of said side bars in front of their centers, the cross-bar connecting the thills directly under the, front crossbar of the frame and having wear-plates and upward-projecting pins, the curved spring secured to the under side of the front cross-bar of said frame and slotted at its ends to receive the said pins, andthe cross-bar secured at its ends'to the side bars of the rectangular frame in rear of I their centers and extending between its ends downward below the frame, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with the axle and the elliptic springs secured thereto, of the horizontal rectangular frame secured at its rear PHILIP FIEGE;

Witnesses: I

L. HALE, T. B. WARING. 

